Chapter 15 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] 3rd. A Trackless Path morning session. Janet, you have a question. Janet: I’m wondering if there are some specific practices for developing and sustaining awakening mind? And in particular if you know that you have a tendency toward despair that sort of throws you off that course, is it best to work on practices […]
Chapter 7 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] the natural state. That seemed a little pretentious for most of us. So this goes to what I want to say here. In this approach it’s about resting very, very deeply. That’s how this union, which is what the word yogin is based on—one who’s experienced union, comes about through very, very deep resting. […]
Chapter 1 of “Chö: Cutting Through the Thickets of Thinking”
Introduction: two themes Ken: This is our first full day of retreat. It’s very good to be here. It’s very, very clear from the sense in the meditation hall here, and also in the interviews that everybody comes to this retreat with a pretty clear and pretty strong intention, and that makes for a […]
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[…] (hungry ghost), focus on survival (animal), pursue pleasure as compensation (human), vie for superiority (titan), or protect status and position (god). Because we are less present to what is actually taking place, our actions are correspondingly less appropriate and less effective. We go to sleep in our beliefs and ignore the consequences of maintaining them.
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[…] mind, too, is nothing itself. The intelligent know that these two understandings are not things. And then, not holding onto even this knowledge, they come to rest in the realm of totality. I can’t get away from it. Like it or not, there is this quality in me which wants to know. That much […]
Chapter 3 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
Meditating in good times and bad Ken: Verse four, or practice number four. You will separate from long-time friends and relatives. You’ll leave behind the wealth you worked to build up. The guest, your consciousness, will move from the inn, your body. Forget the conventional concerns—this is the practice of a bodhisattva. 37 Practices […]
Chapter 1 of “Stalking Death”
A sufi story Ken: A stream from its source in far off-mountains, passing through every kind and description of countryside, at last reached the sands of the desert. Just as it had crossed every other barrier, the stream tried to cross this one, but it found that as fast as it ran into the […]
Chapter 17 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] a question. So are you saying, “How far into this are you when you’ve acknowledged? Have you succeeded in staying with it and then you’re sort of resting in that acknowledgement?” or is that … Ken: Let’s just take a very, very small example, okay? We’re in class tonight, and you come to the […]
Chapter 5 of “Four Immeasurables”
[…] Whichever works. It could be done as a vocalized prayer. The main intention, the main way this works, is as you repeat each line out loud or in your mind, your body’s going to feel something. And you observe that, and rest in that experience. It tells you either where you are open, or […]
Chapter 1 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] Now when you know it that way, there’s a kind of energy which is very, very different from a conceptual energy. And when you find wherever that resting place is, so it’s like that for you, then it will be appropriate for you and me to talk. And because now you know exactly where […]
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[…] has no genesis, faith and devotion are its genesis. Although mahamudra has no conditions, excellent teachers are its conditions. Although mahamudra has no method, this unaffected mind is its method. Although mahamudra has no path, this undistracted mind is its path. Although mahamudra has no result, this mind free in pure being is its result.
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Because of your great compassion, Every being is originally placed in full awakening. Because of your powerful actions, You engage and master everything in samsara and nirvana.
Chapter 7 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
The medieval contract Ken: We’re going to talk about the student-teacher relationship and Jeff suggested to talk about this as it applies in modern times, right? Jeff: Seems to be where we are. Ken: Yes. [Laughs] Well, in traditional Tibetan Buddhism in general, and really very much of Asian Buddhism works from an essentially […]
Chapter 3 of “Chö: Cutting Through Demonic Obsessions”
Demons or habituated patterns? Ken: Kalu Rinpoche once told me—think it may have been his teacher—there had been a problem in the area and a number of lamas had been hired to propitiate the local demons and they had gone up the mountain and banged their drums and rang their bells and chanted their […]
Chapter 6 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
Student questions Student: I had a comment about the first two lines in 14. Ken: Okay. Student: Perhaps it’s just the way you translated it. But it almost seems as if he could see into the future where it would be possible to broadcast something all around the world. And, it just immediately made […]